1. College students who are cheated of money laundering may not go to jail. Specifically:

(1) Being cheated to help others launder money will not be sentenced, but you need to prove to the court that you have been cheated;

(2) If you can't prove that you have been cheated for money laundering, then college students will go to jail.

2. Legal basis: Article 191st of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

The crime of money laundering covers up and conceals the income from drug crimes, organized crimes of underworld nature, terrorist activities, smuggling crimes, corruption and bribery crimes, crimes of disrupting financial management order, financial fraud and other crimes, as well as the source and nature of the income. Whoever commits one of the following acts shall be confiscated of the above-mentioned criminal proceeds and sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined:

(1) Providing capital accounts;

(2) Converting property into cash, financial bills or securities;

(3) Transferring funds by transfer or other payment and settlement methods;

(4) Cross-border transfer of assets;

(5) concealing or disguising the source and nature of the proceeds of crime and their proceeds by other means.

If a unit commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

2. What are the constitutive elements of the crime of money laundering?

1, the object of money laundering crime is a complex object, that is, it violates not only the financial order, but also the social and economic management order, and also the normal financial management activities and relevant provisions of foreign exchange management of the country;

2. The crime of money laundering is objectively manifested as helping to convert property into cash or financial instruments: it includes not only converting physical objects into cash or financial instruments, but also converting cash into financial instruments or financial instruments into cash, and converting this cash into another cash and this financial instrument into another financial instrument. At the same time, the money it launders must come from seven kinds of crimes: drug crimes, organized crimes of underworld nature, crimes of corruption and bribery, crimes of terrorist activities, crimes of smuggling, crimes of disrupting financial management order and crimes of financial fraud.

3. The criminal subject of money laundering crime is the general subject, including natural persons and units who have reached the age of 16 and bear criminal responsibility;

4. The subjective expression of money laundering crime is intentional, that is, the perpetrator knows that his behavior is to cover up the illegal income of the crime, conceal its source and nature, and deliberately do it for the benefit, and hopes that this result will happen.